Category Archives: Books

December 7, 2012

Books I read and kept

I photographed all the books on my “read and kept” shelf. The concept was inspired by my friend Charlie Byron, but also by Judith Thurman’s article in the New Yorker on Nov. 12. Thurman profiled Betty Halbreich, “who runs Betty Halbreich’s Solutions, a …Read more…

Posted in: Arts, Being Competitive, Blogging, Books, Hipsters, inspiration, Matt Davis, Media, Nazis, Opportunism, Photos, Privilege, Queer, Stories, Style, Sustainability, The Word "Awesome", Weird, Writing
Tags: Art, Blogging, Books, GoodReads, Journalism, Matt Davis, Media, Photography, Writing
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October 29, 2012

Rainy day reading for Hurricane Sandy

Here are four distracting reading recommendations for Hurricane Sandy. Suggest clicking on the links and printing them out in case your power goes. A SWEARING CONSULTANT The Guardian ran a revealing set of interviews with the creators of political satire …Read more…

Posted in: Arts, Blogging, Books, Homelessness, Hurricanes, inspiration, Matt Davis, Stories, Writing
Tags: Blogging, citizen journalism, East Coast Hurricane, Hurricane Sandy, longreads, Matt Davis, Media, New Orleans, New Yorker, rainy day reading
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January 24, 2011

The internet can be poetic: Why I’m no cyber-skeptic

There are increasing murmurs about the internet being bad for you, Facebook and Twitter isolating people from reality, but I don’t buy it. Here’s why. You may remember last month Sue and I got stranded in Buffalo for a day …Read more…

Posted in: Blogging, Books, Duct Tape, Matt Davis, New Orleans, Writing
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August 28, 2010

My Brother’s Book Came Out

I’m proud to say my brother’s book on French philosopher Jacques Rancière was published today by Polity books, and you can buy a copy at Amazon.co.uk. Regular readers of this blog, I’m sure, will recognize the similarities between my brother’s …Read more…

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June 26, 2008

People Who Matter

Hey, this’ll cheer you up. The Oregon State Insane Asylum once buried all its dead patients in a cemetery out back. Then it decided there wasn’t room, so it forced the patients to exhume the bodies of those in the …Read more…

Posted in: Books, Mental, Photos, The End of the World
Tags: Book, Civil Rights, Mental, Photography
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